Excellent spider bite article!!

[Venom]

I just stumbled on this article, and found it highly informative and very interesting for anyone interested in spider bites:

http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/reprint/71/2/239.pdf


Some highlights include ( on page 4 ), a detailed description of medically significant Steatoda envenomation, including a case in which Steatodism responded to L.hasselti antivenom. Also, I didn't know that over 13% of Loxosceles laeta and intermedia bites exhibit systemic symptoms, and carry a fatality rate of 1.5%! Many interesting things in this article.

 

[Pulk]

neat link, thanks. that steatodism stuff is really interesting.

 

[Iggy]

Thanks, very interesting article

 

[Savvo]

Great article, thanks

 

[JColt]

Nice reading, thanks!

 

[buthus]

Good find ...thanks Venom